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St Margarets Church Station Road High Bentham Lancaster North Yorkshire LA2 7LH

CRA08/2015/15971Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 16 November 2015

Council decision: Listed Building ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Listed building consent for internal works to subdivide an existing church to provide 2 dwellings

Received
18 August 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
Craven
Ward
Bentham
  1. Received18 Aug
  2. Validated18 Aug
  3. Consult.8 Sep
  4. Target13 Oct
  5. Decided16 Nov

Decided in 90 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at St Margarets Church Station Road High Bentham Lancaster North Yorkshire LA2 7LH. Craven has handled 434 applications of this type. This one was decided in 90 days, 5 weeks longer than Craven's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 1,346 applications in total for the LA2 postcode area.

91% of heritage applications at Craven were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LA2 7LH
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
District
NCA

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 August 2015
Consultation expiry
17 September 2015
Consultation start
18 August 2015
Consultation end
8 September 2015
Target decision date
13 October 2015
Permission expires
16 November 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
27 August 2015
Advertisement expiry
17 September 2015
Site notice start
21 August 2015
Site notice end
11 September 2015

Additional information

Documents
42

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Associated applications

  1. 2015
    18 Aug

    Listed building consent for internal works to subdivide an existing church to provide 2 dwellings

    This applicationApprovedListed building consentCRA08/2015/15971
  2. 2015
    18 Aug

    Interior subdivision of existing church to 2no dwellings,with addition of drainage to septic tank

    RefusedFull ApplicationFiled alongsideCRA08/2015/16076

Source: Craven

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